Official 2020 Step 2 CK Experiences With Scores Thread

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th2activator said:
I received my score yesterday. 250s on all NBMEs and UWSA 1 & 2. Step 2 CK = 228. Not sure what happened.
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Solidarity my friend, I’m telling ya; at the very least this is not the typical SDN reaction thread for a score release. Maybe the people from 6/22 who crushed are just not commenting.

I’ll say another quick thing, my report is across the board higher than my step 1. On Step 1 I had a couple of “Lower” performance Sections and zero “higher” sections. This time I have no “lower” sections and 2 more “higher” sections than Step 1, but my percentile is still lower and the numeric score is only a couple points higher. That just doesn’t seem normal to me.
 
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^wow. My step 2 is scheduled for late September and I was worried if I’ll get the scores in by October 21st. Might just push it back further if it’s gon b like that :laugh:
 
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I've been in a pretty deep funk over getting my 232 score back last week.

Pretty sure i've gained 4-5 pounds due to ice cream consumption... Anyone wanna write me a statin order?
 
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Noisewater-TDX said:
I've been in a pretty deep funk over getting my 232 score back last week.

Pretty sure i've gained 4-5 pounds due to ice cream consumption... Anyone wanna write me a statin order?
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According to the NBME I’m probably not competent enough. Or I wouldn’t know when to appropriately prescribe if you came in after hours and demanded to be seen, but it’s your first time requesting and I may or may not be attracted to you and you may or may not be offering a relatively low-cost gift as a way to say thank you. Especially if your mother is there and says you’re not mentally with it, but your best friend says you’re fine.
 
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Spectreman said:
According to the NBME I’m probably not competent enough. Or I wouldn’t know when to appropriately prescribe if you came in after hours and demanded to be seen, but it’s your first time requesting and I may or may not be attracted to you and you may or may not be offering a relatively low-cost gift as a way to say thank you. Especially if your mother is there and says you’re not mentally with it, but your best friend says you’re fine.
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LOL

I demand 30 20mg atorvastatin pills. In return i shall give you a potted plant, which i have named Gimple. And i can without a doubt confirm that i am not mentally with it.
 
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I normally just lurk on these forums but all the low scores, it has me nervous now. I did a quick google search and was wondering if this notice from USMLE last September may have anything to do with it (probably not but found it interesting):

Most Step 1 and Step 2 Clinical Knowledge (CK) scores are reported within four weeks of testing. However, because of necessary annual modifications to the test item pools, delays occur for examinees who test at certain times of the year.

The United States Medical Licensing Examination® (USMLE®) has announced that examinees testing during the following dates may experience delays in score reporting:

  • Step 1 examinees testing early May through early July 2020 – more specific information will be posted January 2020
  • Step 2 CK examinees testing late June through late August 2020 – more specific information will be posted March 2020
 
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Catching up on this thread and appears I might be an anomaly in Wednesday's score release.

Tested 6/24 with COMLEX a week prior.

Step 2 - 266
Step 1 - 243
NBME 7 - 231 (~5 weeks out)
UWSA 1 - 260 (~10 days out)
UWSA 2 - 259 (3 days out)
Free 120 - 86% (day before)
I took NBME 6 and 8 off line, so don't have scores, but were in the mid-80%
NBME shelf exams were 84-91% raw except for IM (first rotation) which was 77%

Study strategy - UWorld + OME + Divine (found him late, started using him ~3 weeks before)
 
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beauty&blades said:
I normally just lurk on these forums but all the low scores, it has me nervous now. I did a quick google search and was wondering if this notice from USMLE last September may have anything to do with it (probably not but found it interesting):

Most Step 1 and Step 2 Clinical Knowledge (CK) scores are reported within four weeks of testing. However, because of necessary annual modifications to the test item pools, delays occur for examinees who test at certain times of the year.

The United States Medical Licensing Examination® (USMLE®) has announced that examinees testing during the following dates may experience delays in score reporting:

  • Step 1 examinees testing early May through early July 2020 – more specific information will be posted January 2020
  • Step 2 CK examinees testing late June through late August 2020 – more specific information will be posted March 2020
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If I'm not mistaken, I think this happens every year because they want to get data from a large cohort of testers before they release scores. The NBOME does the same thing for COMLEX.
 
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Spectreman said:
According to the NBME I’m probably not competent enough. Or I wouldn’t know when to appropriately prescribe if you came in after hours and demanded to be seen, but it’s your first time requesting and I may or may not be attracted to you and you may or may not be offering a relatively low-cost gift as a way to say thank you. Especially if your mother is there and says you’re not mentally with it, but your best friend says you’re fine.
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Is it just me or does it seem like the real medicine on these tests is being watered down with all these ethics/law/random questions? These are the worst parts of COMLEX Level 2CE and surprisingly the NBME seems to be copying the NBOME for once. Also, I really feel bad for the classes below us who will have a large part of their residency application based on this test.
 
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MavFab said:
Is it just me or does it seem like the real medicine on these tests is being watered down with all these ethics/law/random questions? These are the worst parts of COMLEX Level 2CE and surprisingly the NBME seems to be copying the NBOME for once. Also, I really feel bad for the classes below us who will have a large part of their residency application based on this test.
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The medicine on my test was WTF 4th order questions literally nothing like the NBMEs and much more convoluted than most of Uworld.

I think Uworld inflated me because I did a hardcore path review to try a fill my gaps from Step 1 and Uworld IM is like half the bank and contains tons and tons of step 1 path. So I would blast those questions and get 80’s on my blocks, when apparently I wasn’t prepared for the truck load of EM/Ekg stuff I ran into on the real deal.
 
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Spectreman said:
The medicine on my test was WTF 4th order questions literally nothing like the NBMEs and much more convoluted than most of Uworld.

I think Uworld inflated me because I did a hardcore path review to try a fill my gaps from Step 1 and Uworld IM is like half the bank and contains tons and tons of step 1 path. So I would blast those questions and get 80’s on my blocks, when apparently I wasn’t prepared for the truck load of EM/Ekg stuff I ran into on the real deal.
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I'm officially terrified. Were most of the questions about next step in management, treatment etc. Or was it more like "What is the diagnosis" like 90% of the questions in UWORLD.
 
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Prehealth1011 said:
I'm officially terrified. Were most of the questions about next step in management, treatment etc. Or was it more like "What is the diagnosis" like 90% of the questions in UWORLD.
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Mostly next step stuff, very little diagnosis stuff. I mean, I’m complaining but I felt better walking out than I did on Step 1 but I only came up 6 points - went down in percentile. I also mentioned that my performance report is across the board higher than my step 1, but my score doesn’t reflect it. My point is I don’t think I would have prepped much different. All of my practice scores were 10-19 points higher than my real score. It sucks, but prep method shouldn’t change just because I or anyone else here under performed.
 
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After some reflections, aside from some rando step 1 stuff and the few “easy” questions I remember, I don’t really know how I would have prepared any different. It’s such a bizarre exam.
 
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neurodjent said:
Took the beast today. It sucked, straight up. I marked more than half of each block, although I am a very liberal flagger. So many weirdly worded presentations and answer choices. Essentially was able to get things down to 2 and then guess between them. Only 1-2 true gimmies. 5-8 per block I was confident in first time looking at the question. I don’t feel good about it.
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This is exactly how I felt and I took my exam yesterday. I hope I have the same luck you did.
 
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Yesterday, when taking my Step 2, when I was approximately 85% of the way through the exam there was a Power Outage at the Prometric Site in Troy, MI and I was not able to finish the exam. Can anyone who has had a similar experience tell me how NBME was at handling this? I did notify NBME on Friday and was assigned a case number.
 
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osteomedstudent2021 said:
Yesterday, when taking my Step 2, when I was approximately 85% of the way through the exam there was a Power Outage at the Prometric Site in Troy, MI and I was not able to finish the exam. Can anyone who has had a similar experience tell me how NBME was at handling this? I did notify NBME on Friday and was assigned a case number.
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Sweet Jesus, I'm so sorry 🙁
 
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Spectreman said:
My classmate who is not on SDN had a 232 UW2 a couple days before and got back a 217 yesterday. So far in my circle those of us who got scores yesterday all got rocked.

I mean of course trust your scores, but this has been ugly for us.
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I was under my predicted by close to 10 too. Only a tiny increase from step 1. Hopefully doesn’t bite me too bad
 
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Porky_Pork_Chop_05 said:
...wow what happened this week. Usually everyone has been +/- 5 from UWSA, I'm concerned for my test next week. Not sure what else to do besides hope for the best but keep my expectations low
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Gotta be honest I felt pretty good when I left the exam. So I mean it’s a ****show. Without the last 2.5 months of rotations I definitely lost key connections of the material
 
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Chibucks15 said:
Gotta be honest I felt pretty good when I left the exam. So I mean it’s a ****show. Without the last 2.5 months of rotations I definitely lost key connections of the material
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Yeah I was the same for the most part. I thought it was hard, but I felt MUCH better than after step 1, but my percentile dropped.
 
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osteomedstudent2021 said:
Yesterday, when taking my Step 2, when I was approximately 85% of the way through the exam there was a Power Outage at the Prometric Site in Troy, MI and I was not able to finish the exam. Can anyone who has had a similar experience tell me how NBME was at handling this? I did notify NBME on Friday and was assigned a case number.
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Very sorry to hear that, should the test site not be prepared to handle such a situation and be able to tell you more on how it might be handled ?
 
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Reset UW and reset dorian today...time to get to work. Taking the exam after my medicine and em rotations the next 2 months. Hoping to go for the slow and steady approach so I don’t need to take a long dedicated since this exam may not matter for my app.

Step 1 245-255 (underperformed practice by 10-15 pts)
Shelves 85-99%iles
Haven’t taken peds/obgyn since those were canceled Lol
 
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sdhere1234 said:
Anddd after reading this im officially freaking the **** out lmao
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You’ll be fine. I underperformed cuz my test got cancelled 4 times in 3 different states haha it was exhausting. On top of that all my rotations got cancelled and I had to scramble to get a rotation in my specialty (hadn’t done it third year)

Hoping residencies realize that trying to study while all that is going on is just a bit of extenuating circumstances! I’m just happy I still went up from my Step 1, even if it wasn’t what I expected
 
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So I did underperform but thank the good lord my Step score didn't decrease from Step 1.

Step 1: 243
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UW% = 73% (1 Pass)
UWSA1 = 255 (3 weeks out)
UWSA2 = 254 (4 days out)
NBME 7 = 226 (4 weeks out)
NBME 6 = 239 (2 weeks out)
New Free 120 = 80.8% (Day before)

Step 2: 244

Doesn't tank my application, so I'll freaking take it lol. Time to wait for COMLEX. Let's hope that went well :bored:
 
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For what it's worth...

Took NBME7 two weeks before the actual and got a 186...was really bummed out at the time, but ended up with a 226 on the actual.

Previous Practice:
UW 1: 218 (~seven wks out)
NBME 8: 214 (~six wks out)
UW2: 207(~four wks out)

Maybe I should've just taken it at seven weeks out?? 🤣🤣🤣
 
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Prehealth1011 said:
I'm officially terrified. Were most of the questions about next step in management, treatment etc. Or was it more like "What is the diagnosis" like 90% of the questions in UWORLD.
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Took the CK 6/30

Questions felt more like the NBME "next step" as opposed to the UWorld "what is the diagnosis".

Also, the questions stems (at least for me) were much more like NBME; shorter with far less info/evidence than UWorld and far less buzzwords.
 
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what resources have people been using for Level 2. for people who took the exam, was there any emphasis on certain topics?
 
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Studied with UWorld 1.5x (71% 1st pass), Tzanki (~40% mature), OME 1x through + divine intervention risk factors and military

Step 1: 246
NBME6: 232 (8 weeks out)
NBME 8: 250 (6 weeks out)
IM Shelf: 91 (5 weeks out)
NBME 7: 245 (4 weeks out)
Comsae 103b: 623 (3 weeks out )
UWSA1: 253 (2 weeks out)
UWSA 2: 250 (1 week out)
New free 120: 76%

Score predictor: 255 +/- 6.5

Step 2 CK: 253

Happy with the score. My goal was >250. I felt like hot garbage after the test.
 
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